2026 Nils Ole Tippenhauer: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	35	11601	11269	572	559	84	6037

Overview

Nils Ole Tippenhauer is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within computer science and engineering, focusing particularly on security, privacy, and systems engineering.

The main fields of study in Tippenhauer's work include:

Computer Science
Engineering

The subfields of study associated with their publications are:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Control and Systems Engineering
Information Systems
Hardware and Architecture

Tippenhauer's research topics cover a variety of areas within security and communication technologies, notable among them are:

Smart Grid Security and Resilience
Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies
User Authentication and Security Systems
Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
Security and Verification in Computing
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

The scientist has contributed frequently to several publication venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Nils Ole Tippenhauer's recent papers include:

Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
Key Negotiation Downgrade Attacks on Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy, 2020, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
The KNOB is Broken: Exploiting Low Entropy in the Encryption Key Negotiation Of Bluetooth BR/EDR, 2023, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
HADES-IoT: A Practical and Effective Host-Based Anomaly Detection System for IoT Devices (Extended Version), 2021, IEEE Internet of Things Journal
PAtt: Physics-based Attestation of Control Systems, 2023, TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt)

Collaborations form an important part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

Riccardo Taormina
Stefano Galelli
Andrés Murillo
Daniele Antonioli
Mathias Payer

Tippenhauer has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Science+Business Media:

Applied Cryptography and Network Security, 2021

Best Publications

SWaT: a water treatment testbed for research and training on ICS security

Aditya P. Mathur;Nils Ole Tippenhauer

707
Citations
On the requirements for successful GPS spoofing attacks

Nils Ole Tippenhauer;Christina Pöpper;Kasper Bonne Rasmussen;Srdjan Capkun

678
Citations
A Survey of Physics-Based Attack Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems

Jairo Giraldo;David Urbina;Alvaro Cardenas;Junia Valente

461
Citations
ProfilIoT: a machine learning approach for IoT device identification based on network traffic analysis

Yair Meidan;Michael Bohadana;Asaf Shabtai;Juan David Guarnizo

445
Citations
Limiting the Impact of Stealthy Attacks on Industrial Control Systems

David I. Urbina;Jairo A. Giraldo;Alvaro A. Cardenas;Nils Ole Tippenhauer

389
Citations
Battle of the Attack Detection Algorithms: Disclosing Cyber Attacks on Water Distribution Networks

Riccardo Taormina;Stefano Galelli;Nils Ole Tippenhauer;Elad Salomons

232
Citations
Characterizing Cyber-Physical Attacks on Water Distribution Systems

Riccardo Taormina;Stefano Galelli;Nils Ole Tippenhauer;Elad Salomons

184
Citations
Attacks on public WLAN-based positioning systems

Nils Ole Tippenhauer;Kasper Bonne Rasmussen;Christina Pöpper;Srdjan Čapkun

161
Citations
SIPHON: Towards Scalable High-Interaction Physical Honeypots

Juan David Guarnizo;Amit Tambe;Suman Sankar Bhunia;Martin Ochoa

139
Citations
Low-complexity Visible Light Networking with LED-to-LED communication

Domenico Giustiniano;Nils Ole Tippenhauer;Stefan Mangold

137
Citations
MiniCPS: A Toolkit for Security Research on CPS Networks

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137
Citations
On Ladder Logic Bombs in Industrial Control Systems

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119
Citations
On Limitations of Friendly Jamming for Confidentiality

N. O. Tippenhauer;L. Malisa;A. Ranganathan;S. Capkun

118
Citations
Investigation of signal and message manipulations on the wireless channel

Christina Pöpper;Nils Ole Tippenhauer;Boris Danev;Srdjan Capkun

114
Citations
ID-based secure distance bounding and localization

Nils Ole Tippenhauer;Srdjan Čapkun

99
Citations
On Attacker Models and Profiles for Cyber-Physical Systems

Marco Rocchetto;Nils Ole Tippenhauer

96
Citations
Integrity Regions: Authentication through Presence in Wireless Networks

Srdjan Čapkun;Mario Čagalj;Ghassan Karame;Nils Ole Tippenhauer

90
Citations
Advanced Security Testbed Framework for Wearable IoT Devices

Shachar Siboni;Asaf Shabtai;Nils O. Tippenhauer;Jemin Lee

88
Citations
IoTScanner: Detecting Privacy Threats in IoT Neighborhoods

Sandra Siby;Rajib Ranjan Maiti;Nils Ole Tippenhauer

88
Citations
Survey and New Directions for Physics-Based Attack Detection in Control Systems

David I. Urbina;Jairo Giraldo;Alvaro A. Cardenas;Junia Valente

84
Citations
Wearable Environmental Sensors and Infrastructure for Mobile Large-Scale Urban Deployment

Erik Wilhelm;Sandra Siby;Yuren Zhou;Xavier Jayaraj Siddarth Ashok

75
Citations
HAMIDS: Hierarchical Monitoring Intrusion Detection System for Industrial Control Systems

Hamid Reza Ghaeini;Nils Ole Tippenhauer

75
Citations
Attacking Fieldbus Communications in ICS: Applications to the SWaT Testbed.

David I. Urbina;Jairo Alonso Giraldo;Nils Ole Tippenhauer;Alvaro A. Cárdenas

66
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Srdjan Capkun ETH Zurich

Zbigniew Kalbarczyk University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David M. Nicol University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

William H. Sanders Carnegie Mellon University

Domenico Giustiniano Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies

Avi Ostfeld Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Asaf Shabtai Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Yuval Elovici Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Alvaro A. Cardenas University of California, Santa Cruz

Henrik Sandberg Royal Institute of Technology

External Links

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